Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-11

usrtiee q shown IN their choice Of omeeRs
and agents to conduct the government Ins
republican party cherished with patriotic
pride all the great achievements Of Union
eoldiers and all the grand results OF the var.
Every measure for the benefit OF Union
soldiers received prompt attention, ana E
Of that party. Union soldiers in every rank
and condition Of life have been preferred By
the republican party for local. state ana
national Offices. Can this be sid OF the
democratic party? The controlling ele-
ments of that party look with prejudice upon
Union soldiers and DO not with rare 81,
oeptions, confer upon them place ana
power. Ten rebel soldiers are appointed to
Office to one Union soldier. This admins
tration has emphasized this feeling In the
most striking manner by appointing 20 the
chief offices of the governments, especaeuy
In the foreign service. the most dls-
tinguished- leaders OF the rebel sesnoe.
vho now represent us in the diplomatic and
consnlsr service abroad are confederate sol
iliers or civilians. hold in my hand q list
of ninety-one persons now ministers, con-
suls. secretaries of legation and the Ike, IN
most of the chief countries OF the world,
eyery one of whom gained his distinction OF
greater or lesser degree by service IN the
Many of those appointed in the north were
in sympathy with tho rebellion. This is 30
,narked that every nation to which these
oentIemen were accredited may fairly con-
clnde that il was the rebel cause that tn
umphed and not the union cause. Nearly
AIN these are of the extreme school of south
ern politics. One of them refused TO ask to
l;eoh,lifioc poro0vo6 An0fhaP. m
q public holiday, when the flag Of our coun-
trv was floating over the city Of Washing
ton. turned to it and said: GLOW hate
chat fiac:" and yet when checked, added:
SBut would fight for it now" The body
of these men are more fitted to represent
the confederate states than the union PEG.
Die. have no wish to Disseminate against
those Who in rood faith acquiesced in the
reeults of the war, but do think it is q
shame that within twenty-five years after
| the war is over, the democratic party IN
power should emphasize to all the world
their sympathy with the confederate cause.
The president has not been free from
| fault in this respect. The bias of his mind
| Is shown in q recent letter to the committee
who invited him to attend the unvelhng OF
the monument erected to the memory OF
| John @. Calhoun. He says he believes ut
would be we'll if all he (Calhoun) thought
and all he believed and taught, and all hif
| sspirations were better known and under
stood" What would Andrew jackson have
said to such sentiment as this If uttered in
his presence in the name of the democratic
party?
| or satisfaction for the success of the UnioT
cause, OF sympathy for the men who e1
posed their lives for the preservation of theil
oountry. His innumerable vetoes of private
pension bills, his Indifference to the suffer
incs of invalid and il diaent Union soldier
scattered through the country, do not indi
cate that feeling of gratitude which be
of the United States. The democratic par
ty, though containing in it's ranks man!
honorable and patriotic men, is not the rep
| resentative of the loyal element OF thu
country, but is confessedly composed OF thu
body of adherents to the rebel cause, rein
forced by the element we thought oisloya
in the north and those who follow bindly
without questioning, the name, memories
and aspirations of the demOcr alto party, ant
the scattered victims OF disappointment
inevitable in political life.
I do not wish to utter one word to rev1v
the animosities of the war. That was Tough
out manfully and bravely by the two con
tending parties with such courage as to in
spire the respect of each side for the other
and to its logical conclusion of the complet
success of the Union cause. All that asl
fulfill the terms of their surrender, and tina
the results of the war may be respected ant
observed with honor by confederates, AM
firmly, but with charity and kindness, b.
Union soldiers and citizens. For this ap
neal alike to confederate and Union soldiers
10 the blue and the gray, so that when pas
sion and prejudice disappear, both SIDE
will stand by each other In the improvement
and development of our great and unite
country.
II And this, fellow citizens, brings me to th
vital controlling difference between the tw
great parties now as during the war. fror
the beginning of the government, one the0r
tended to belittle, degrade and lessen th
! authority of the national union. 1t favore
! a strict construction of the constitution;
construed il like an indictment OF q pens
bond, every doubt was to be resolved againi
it. To them it was contract which an
state might throw of at its pleasure. The
called this the right Of secession. The
, called this government confederacy. Tn
democratic party in later years fell unde
, the absolute dominion of this theory. Whe
, they undertook in 1861 to put their theorie
, in practice, they expressly called their gov
eminent confederate government, an
by their constitution, they made slavery an
, the right of secession their corner stone:
I with jefferson Davis az their chief.
The opposite theory was that the govern
!, ment formed by our fathers was nations
government, that
. indissoluble bond Of union, defining tn
powers of the government, to be construct
, literally, 90 as to carry into effect tho pui
poses of it's trainers; that this was an ordiu
ance. not of the states, but Of the people, t
promote more perfect union; to preserv
! the blessings of liberty for themselves an
their, posterity. They were unioniste; the
believed in the growth and strength an
: power of the republic. The republica
party is the representative of this theory
It marshalled the union forces for the pres
ervation of the union, and sgainf
: secession. It preserved the union. Blu
for it the American republic would hav
been thing of the past. For twenty lou
years it administered the executive branc
Of the government on these ideas. It wa
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